6861. A prospective evaluation of ventilator-associated conditions and infection-related ventilator-associated conditions.
作者: Anthony F Boyer.;Noah Schoenberg.;Hilary Babcock.;Kathleen M McMullen.;Scott T Micek.;Marin H Kollef.
来源: Chest. 2015年147卷1期68-81页
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has shifted policy away from using ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and toward using ventilator-associated conditions (VACs) as a marker of ICU quality. To date, limited prospective data regarding the incidence of VAC among medical and surgical ICU patients, the ability of VAC criteria to capture patients with VAP, and the potential clinical preventability of VACs are available.
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